stretch rope

English

Verb

stretch rope (third-person singular simple present stretches rope, present participle stretching rope, simple past and past participle stretched rope)

  1. (US, slang, dated) To be executed by hanging.
    • 1935, Mari Sandoz, Old Jules, page 37:
      It don't never rain in this damned country and you'll stop lead or stretch rope if you keeps shootin' cattle.
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